Has U.S. sold India defense equipment with fake parts?

New Delhi has shopped for military equipment extensively with Lockheed Martin, Boeing

Published: 08/09/2012 at 10:41 PM

(NDTV) The Ministry of Defence is investigating the possibility that crucial and expensive equipment bought from the US includes defective Chinese parts.

Defence Minister A K Antony today told the Rajya Sabha that the “Government is verifying reports” about this.

A U.S. Senate investigation has concluded that between 2009 and 2010, 1800 incidents were detected in which more than a million fake parts had been sourced from China. The U.S. Senate panel report that was released this May states that counterfeit electronic parts from China were used in the Air Force’s C-130J cargo plane, helicopters for special operations and the Navy’s Poseidon surveillance plane.